Chapter 1: Machine Learning and Its Life Cycle in the Cloud

Machine Learning (ML) is a technique that has been around for decades. It is hard to believe how ubiquitous ML is now in our daily life. It has also been a rocky road for the field of ML to become mainstream, until the recent major leap in computer technology. Today's computer hardware is faster, smaller, and smarter. Internet speeds are faster and more convenient. Storage is cheaper and smaller. Now, it is rather easy to collect, store, and process massive amounts of data with the technology we have now. We are able to create sizeable datasets that we were not able to before, train ML models using compute resources that were not available before, and make use of ML models in every ...

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